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Intermittant Delayed Response to Mouse Clicks


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XP Home SP 2

 

About a week ago my computer started to respond slowly to mouse clicks. For example, I'll click on My Computer in the Start menu and it takes 4 or 5 seconds for My Computer to open. Or I'll click on the red 'X' to close a Word document and it might take 4 or 5 seconds before the document actually closes. To be extra annoying, this behavior doesn't happen every time, but it does happen much of the time. What might be causing this?

 

My first thought/fear was malware, even though I'm neurotic about keeping my computer clean. Just to be sure I scanned my computer with several online scanners - I have Kaspersky 7 installed - and no signs of infection were detected.

 

I run almost nothing in the background. Many people would laugh at how little I have in the background. In any case, there is no process taking up CPU power when I observe this behavior - just old System Idle.

 

I uninstalled my Logitech mouse software (no loss, trust me) and made sure my HDDs were running at UDMA. I'm at a loss. I'll appreciate your help.

 

Daddy

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